In doing early research for my next Nicky Hopkins post, I landed on the Jefferson Airplane’s 1969 album, Volunteers, because Hopkins plays on five tracks. Unfortunately, his prodigious talents couldn’t pull the record out of a nose dive. I get that the group has many adherents who appreciate their wild, shirtless sensibility, but I don’t […]

On March 26, I, Lance Davis, joined Sarah Espinoza in matrimony. It was a lovely, understated ceremony at the Urban Light installation in front of LACMA (LA County Museum of Art). Urban Light was one of the first places Sarah and I went to on a date because it features 200 street lamps from […]

There was no turning back. We’d find new members and make the band better than ever. Bingham left and I stayed up all night writing “At Midnight.” A year later we would be in the studio recording How We Handle Our Midnights and the second life of the band would begin. –Joey Kneiser Next week, […]

“There’s one story rarely told. One story almost forgotten. One about the true magic of Christmas, about how a small-town band from Tennessee not only saved Christmas, but showed us all the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll.” I was just wondering the other day, “2013 has been a pretty good year for music, wouldn’t it […]

“Looky here Little Caney, honey don’t you cry You know we’re all going to die someday And the hand of another you’ll be holding tight When you walk out to the site where I lay” On February 2, my father passed away at the age of 80. A simple cold turned into bronchitis, which […]